Paul Meade, the Apple vp answerable for the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, is leaving the corporate to hitch OpenAI’s {hardware} staff, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Meade additionally reportedly led the event of the AI-powered sensible glasses that Apple plans to launch next year. The expensive Imaginative and prescient Professional was not a success, however Apple is hoping that extra reasonably priced sensible glasses will help it compete with wearable devices from Meta.
Gurman frames this departure as a byproduct of John Ternus’ imminent elevation to Apple CEO, and of Ternus’ choice to shake up the {hardware} engineering staff, which left a few of the firm’s vice presidents feeling like they’d been demoted.
OpenAI, in the meantime, is already working with Apple’s former chief design officer Jony Ive on an AI system that CEO Sam Altman has claimed might be more peaceful and calm than an iPhone, although stories final fall urged the corporate was struggling to get the details right.
TechCrunch has reached out to Apple and OpenAI for remark.
